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The real work is done here, in all of 8 lines of CSS:

https://github.com/folz/unsticker.me/blob/master/firefox/dat...

This makes me think all the bloat could be avoided by making this a userstyle (usable via e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/ ) instead of an entire addon.

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True, but that cuts the potential user base from {people using either Chrome or Firefox} to {those people, but they also have to have a niche addon already installed}.

Also I wasn't sure if I'd need fancy javascript logic or not to get unsticker.me working. I'm just happy it only took those 8 lines of CSS.

Well, the user base is already people using Chrome or Firefox who are willing to install a niche addon.

Since you are not doing this for profit, it would be nice to mention the user style as an alternative to the extension.

I've tried to get the Chrome extensions Facebook history-deleting tools to work and noticed that Facebook is prone to using generated gibberish instead of actual CSS class names. I wasn't sure if that was simply a part of/side effect of their minifaction process, or if it's intentional. In any case, they seem to periodically change the gibberish class names that the Javascript targets, breaking all the tools that try to simulate user actions on the FB website.

Will this extension fall prey to the same fate?

Maybe (although I think the class names I used are going to be constant), but it should be easy to update the CSS if that happens.

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